Volume 53 Chapter 24 Retreat

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In the middle of nowhere, Zhang Tie's mental power kept repeating the extremely boring training process in the void...

This cultivation process is monotonous enough to drive people crazy. Zhang Tie continuously condenses the two energies in the void, and after condensing them, he continues to let the two energies dissipate naturally. This process is not repeated ten times. Instead, he repeated it thousands of times, until Zhang Tie's spirit was completely numb, and everything turned into an instinctive and mechanized reaction, which was still going on.

Zhang Tie hopes that one day he will be as free as breathing when he is in the kinetic energy of the two energies.

For this purpose, the process must be made as simple as breathing.

This requires practice, hard training, and repeating one thing countless times before you can improve a little bit. In this kind of training, the only thing that accompanies you is loneliness and emptiness.

It is difficult to have fair things in the world. Perhaps the only fair thing is time. Time is the same for everyone. You live a day, and others live a day. The only difference is what you spend your time on. After a long time , the things you water will take root, germinate, grow up, flourish, bloom corresponding flowers, and produce corresponding fruits. Some fruits are good, some are evil, and some are good. Fruits are beautiful, some are ugly, some are sweet, some are bitter...

In every field, there are strong people, and the so-called strong people are definitely those who have spent the most time in that field.

This is Zhang Tie's first real retreat after coming to Skyscraper Realm.

In such a closed state, Zhang Tie forgot the time and the turmoil of the outside world. He was completely immersed in the practice until the jade token he carried with him vibrated regularly. He stepped back and opened his eyes.

There was a message from the jade tablet, which was from Leng Manxue——Your Majesty, Wu Qiankun of Wa Palace is begging to see you.

——Take him to the Hall of Mental Cultivation, and I'll be there later.

--yes!

When the news was sent back, Zhang Tie stood up, moved his body, and made a few difficult movements on the spot that seemed unbelievable to others. During those movements, the muscles and bones of his whole body were crackling like firecrackers. ring.

After finishing those actions, Zhang Tie felt that his whole mind, spirit, and body were finally alive again.

Glancing at the circle of special candles lit on a candlestick in the corner of the room,

One of the candles has been completely extinguished, leaving only a base, and a foot-long candle has burned out twelve of the thirty marks on it, while the remaining ten have not been lit. , which means that I spent forty-two days in retreat this time.

There is no such thing as a clock in the world of skyscrapers. The candle is used to record the time. The candle is not an ordinary candle, but a jade candle. It is a special product of the world of skyscrapers. There are several kinds of jade fire candles, the most common The length of one kind of jade fire candle is just one foot, and the whole jade fire candle is just divided into 30 scales. It takes exactly 30 days from lighting to burning out, and it can consume about one centimeter in a day. , you can judge how much time has been used, which is very convenient. Some jade fire candles even take a year to light, and the longest jade fire candle even takes a year to light.

In addition to keeping time, after the jade fire candle is lit, it will leave a faint and strange fragrance in the air, which can drive away mosquitoes and animals, and can also prevent practitioners from going crazy It has become something often used by cultivators and generals in the Motian Realm when they are retreating, and it is even an indispensable thing.

The jade fire candle bloomed with a warm yellow light, reflecting a corner of Zhang Tie's closed room with a warm color, while most of the room was in darkness.

Zhang Tie walked to the candlestick, extinguished the jade candle, and then opened the light cover of the night pearl in the secret room, and the whole closed secret room was suddenly lit up.

Zhang Tie pushed open the closed door of the secret room. Outside the door of the secret room was a secret passage. Next to the secret passage was a staircase that went upwards. The staircase was made of white jade. On both sides of the staircase, a night pearl was inlaid every few meters. Zhang Tie He walked up the winding white jade steps step by step, walked up for nearly two hundred meters, passed through several special protective measures, and came to Jiaotai Hall.

The place where the Dragon Emperor retreats is naturally heavily prohibited, and idlers cannot enter, and it is not easy to destroy it. Of course, you can also practice in the Jiaotai Hall, but the practice in the Jiaotai Hall is okay for a short time, but if you need to retreat for a long time , It is safest to retreat in the underground closed room of Jiaotai Hall.

There are also several secret passages leading to different parts of the Dragon Emperor City in the closed closed room underground. One of the secret passages can lead to a mountain outside the Dragon Emperor City at the farthest. After building those secret passages, the responsible The artisans who built the secret passages were wiped with drugs to erase their memories. Only Zhang Tie and Leng Manxue knew about those secret passages in the entire Dragon Emperor City.

When Zhang Tie pushed open the gate of Jiaotai Hall and walked out from Jiaotai Hall, the dazzling eyes outside and the happy chirping of birds finally gave Zhang Tie the feeling of returning to the crowd.

"See Your Majesty..." Several guards guarding outside the Jiaotai Hall and Leng Manxue, who was already waiting here, saluted Zhang Tie together.

Zhang Tie was retreating below these days, while above, a group of gods and guards in the Forbidden City had been guarding the Jiaotai Hall in shifts, never resting for a moment, never leaving, and Leng Manxue was here to welcome Zhang Tie.

"You have worked hard!" Zhang Tie said to several generals with a smile.

"This is our duty!" The generals were flattered, and quickly bowed again and said.

"If everyone can do their own thing well, our Dragon Emperor Temple will rise again one day!" Zhang Tie nodded, gave a word of encouragement, and then walked to the Hall of Mental Cultivation with Leng Manxue.

Along the way, Leng Manxue took a step behind Zhang Tie, quietly staring at Zhang Tie several times with her eyes.

"What, do I have flowers on my face?" Zhang Tie asked Leng Manxue.

"This retreat, Your Majesty seems...it seems...a lot easier all of a sudden!" A woman's intuition is sometimes stronger than the knight consciousness of the holy rank, and Leng Manxue keenly noticed something different from Zhang Tie. s things.

"Really, I think so too!" Zhang Tie nodded. For him, this retreat, in addition to cultivation, these dozens of days abandoned the clean penance of wealth, sex, fame, food and sleep, and it was also a reflection on Zhang Tie. A relaxation and return of the spirit. During this relaxation and return, Zhang Tie felt that he had completely escaped from a bunch of trivial matters in the Dragon Emperor Temple, just like crawling out of a quagmire, and once again had the freedom and peace of mind. The feeling of having nothing to worry about—compared to the superior position of the Dragon Emperor, Zhang Tie feels that this kind of feeling is what he likes, and this is also the real self.

But life is often contradictory. It is certainly not Zhang Tie's original intention to become the Dragon Emperor. Zhang Tie has paid a lot for this position, but in the position of Dragon Emperor, Zhang Tie can also enjoy many things that he has never enjoyed before. privileges and vast resources.

"Did Wu Qiankun bring anything?" Zhang Tie asked Leng Manxue.

"Following Wu Qiankun, there are also a few generals from Wa Palace. Those generals brought five huge iron boxes. Wu Qiankun said that it was something His Majesty needed. He didn't let me check it, so I let those few The gods of Wa Palace are waiting outside the Hall of Mental Cultivation with an iron box..."

(To be continued.)